NEWS & INFORMATION"

Best Buy winners are chosen by HiVi, a Stereo Sound publication and Japan's premier AV equipment magazine for more than 30 years. HA-MX100-Z took first place in Headphone Category I, for headphones up to 50,000 yen.

Best Buy winners are chosen by HiVi, a Stereo Sound publication and Japan's premier AV equipment magazine for more than 30 years. HA-MX100-Z took first place in Headphone Category I, for headphones up to 50,000 yen.

| Headphones at studios, and key roles of headphones

Mention studio monitoring, and people often imagine massive studio speakers. These large speakers are essential for checking ultra-high frequencies and heavy bass, but they are only used in control rooms. In the studio itself, artists and musicians monitor their performances with headphones.
In this way, headphones have played a key role at studios for some time. In fact, recent years have seen a surge in headphone use by engineers and producers, as studios evolve. Recording continues to shift from tape and other analog media to data managed on computer systems. Headphones, which are portable and take up little space, have also become essential in editing and sound production. They will be increasingly important in years to come, as demand grows for higher quality.

| Studio essentials

To be useful in studios, headphones must produce neutral sound, free from coloration, with images equivalent to those produced by studio speakers. Engineers cannot trust their judgment if the timbre or balance produced by headphones differs from that of speakers. Still, the descriptions "studio headphones" or "studio monitors" give people the wrong impression that they have a dull, clinical sound signature.
What's most important in this studio equipment is extreme musicality. By design, studio monitors must support good judgment about sound quality and withstand rough handling, but they must also allow listeners to directly evaluate—and appreciate—how music is created and produced at the source.

| Standards in listening—what sounds "good"

Arranging the acoustic environment at studios involves careful selection of microphones and other equipment. After this, engineers spend much time and effort in music production, as they reveal subtle nuances and strike an exquisite balance in the finished tracks. Precisely for this reason, some insist that music should be heard exactly as those who produced it intended.
Whether or not you're into audio gear, choosing the products with your favorite sound signature is a wonderful way to enjoy music. Still, this may not be how those who made it intended, from the standpoint of sound and balance. For Victor Studio, good sound is defined by the studio master. To us, music sounds good if it sounds like the studio master, which was painstakingly produced. Our guiding mission is to bring listeners this sound, straight and undiluted.

| Produced by Victor Studio

This regard for delivering music exactly as it was intended has guided Victor Studio in development to date, in wood-cone component systems or studio monitor headphones alike. The commitment has elevated our consumer products to the level of professional studio equipment. Meanwhile, we have also earned a solid reputation in production, among studios, engineers, producers, and others in the recording industry.
As Victor Studio products are "studio grade" and used at many studios, they support music playback at the same level studios enjoy. The equipment reveals the polish and touch of studio professionals, presenting music as it was intended to sound.

| Tuned by studio engineers

Sound production designed solely by hardware engineers sometimes tends to emphasize specifications and performance as key criteria in selection. Yet what we want most from the component systems and headphones in our life is not audio quality but music. Studio engineers bring to the mix both insight on audio and good judgment about musicality.
The sum of parts or components with outstanding specs or performance is not always a product that's engaging to hear. It's only with expert tuning by studio engineers that music comes to life.

technology

Four-core wiring
Four-core wiring runs from the plug to the drivers,
enhancing presence and spatiality.

Highly durable
Band specifications have been updated.
Now even more durable,
the headphones withstand the rigors of studio production.

Aged to Victor Studio specifications
The headphones are "Burn in" in advance,
applying insight and aging techniques
from years of studio experience. Burn-in with multiple
sources instead of similar tracks and
signals enables solid monitoring
performance straight out of the box.